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Here's the quick and dirty way to TURN OFF or DISABLE the "Shutdown Event Tracker" on Windows Server 2008 for all your test, development and virtual servers.

1. Start...Run...Open: type: gpedit.msc

2. Of course...

3. Find: Local Computer Policy, Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System:

4. Select: Display Shutdown Event Tracker [Note: It's "Not Configured" by default.]

5. Double Click it and select the Disable radio button.

Result: Here's what we want...

TVUG Presentation - June 10th, 2008 (Now June 17th)  

This event was postponed due to serious weather advisories.

Be sure to check the TVUG Website for any updates.

TVUG President wrote in an e-mail to the Tech Valley .NET Users Group membership.  Please join us...

Join us for our last meeting before our summer break as Andrew Badera introduces us to Windows Communication Foundation. The current plan is that we won't have another meeting until September '08, but we might have a special meeting if we can get an INETA speaker in the area. Let's put it to a vote next week!

WCF Essentials

Speaker: Andrew Badera, CTO, Change Round-Up
When: Tuesday June 10th, 2008 - 6:30-9PM
Where: VersaTrans Solutions, Latham, NY

The global acceptance of Web services, which includes standard protocols for application-to-application communication, has changed software development. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is designed to offer a manageable approach to distributed computing, broad interoperability, and direct support for service orientation.

In order to simplify development of connected applications through a service-oriented programming model, Windows Communication Foundation bundles a lot of powerful features in one easily configured package. A couple notable features, as service architectures grow more complex and support greater workload, are duplex communication and connection throttling. This presentation will review the essentials of WCF, utilizing a Silverlight GUI to demonstrate latency and scaling characteristics of a simplex polling application vs. a duplex push application.

Speaker Bio
A lifelong geek, Andrew Badera has been immersed in the software world since the age of seven, when his parents bought him a Tandy BASICA programming book instead of Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator he had been asking for, months on end. Not to be dissuaded, he read the book three times over the following week, and immediately set about, without any great degree of success, trying to write his own flight simulator. Currently he serves as CTO of Change Round-Up in Coxsackie, NY as well as senior software engineer on the Open Systems team at Davis Vision, Inc. in Latham.

What's this:  I can't figure out what any of this stuff is...

https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/register/newsletterupdate.aspx

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Passport Info: 00014B70C3A4073E

I was attempting to update my Windows Mobile 5 device with some simple options and realized I may need to login first since I was getting dead pages while trying to download content.  Then after I filled out the required registration forms, I got what you see above.  May I'll get a chance to update this post when I find and answer, but please let me know if anyone knows what this is and/or how it can be fixed.

From the Editor

Hello developers across the northeast. Here's the latest news for our corner of the country.

As I write this, Code Camp 9 hasn't happened yet, but I want to thank everyone who volunteered to help make Code Camp what I'm sure was a great event. In particular, I want to thank our many speakers who shared expertise and the contributing companies who donated giveaways to support the event.

If you missed Code Camp 9 and live in the Albany, NY area, you can attend the Tech Valley Code Camp on April 19. 

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: A Platform For Building Custom Applications

Speaker: Alberto Gemin, Account Manager, Infusion, Development
When: Tuesday April 8, 2008 - 6:30-9PM
Where: VersaTrans Solutions, Latham, NY

With its latest release, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is aiming to function as a flexible, robust platform for building applications that can help meet the unique needs of many business groups. This technical presentation will be composed of three parts: a brief overview of CRM concepts, a presentation of the Dynamics CRM 4.0 application focusing on architectural and development aspects as well as new features, and a drill down into application design areas, such as User Interface Management, Business Logic Design and Application Data Modeling. The session’s goal is to provide insights into the possible benefits of using a platform like Microsoft Dynamics CRM to jumpstart application building efforts.

Bio
Alberto Gemin is an account manager at Infusion Development in New York, focusing on State & Local Government and CRM. He started his career in Italy in the world of TSO, CICS, IMS and COBOL, but he soon moved to Sweden, where he worked at Ericsson’s European Research Labs. He designed real-time operating systems and device drivers, and learned a lot about multi-threading and Unix. He moved on to Accenture in France, where he became involved in CRM with Daimler-Chrysler‘s pan-European implementation of Siebel. After three years at Innoveer in London as a senior architect implementing EAI solutions for CRM systems, at Infusion he found the opportunity to expand his experience with a wide range of architectural challenges. He is Siebel and Microsoft Dynamics CRM certified.